Sickly Girl Doesn’t Die in Zombie Simulator 324p1

Chapter 324: A Glimmer of Truth p1

Lin Jiayao stared at the characters carved on the insect chair. After a long while, she controlled the backrest to return to its normal shape.

If it weren’t for the system’s discovery and correction, she might have actually forgotten how to write in Chinese.

What about next time? Would she forget more important memories due to this interference?

While waiting for the system to investigate, Lin Jiayao pondered this question.

She felt it was necessary to find a way to “back up” her current memories.

The best method she could think of was to find an easily controlled zombie and implant all her experiences as a dream.

Then, if she felt her memory had been tampered with, she could simply devour the zombie with the Blood Orb Fungus and retrieve its memories.

Using the dream memories as a baseline to correct any alterations.

This method sounded good. As long as the zombie was kept in a state of suspended animation, the dream wouldn’t be affected.

But the actual implementation would be very difficult.

Because recording everything would require replicating the system’s memories as well.

But the system had explicitly forbidden her from revealing anything about it to any other being on Earth or in the blood crystal worlds.

It was like how Blood Crystals from other worlds couldn’t be brought to Earth without processing.

As if it was hiding something.

If she recorded her memories, she would have to exclude anything related to the system…

Excluding all system-related information while ensuring the absolute accuracy of the recorded memories would be a massive undertaking.

She might have to spend years in the dream world, sorting through her memories.

“[The system is also responsible for not detecting the previous incident in time.]”

“[The system can create a free backup of the host’s memories and store it in the Hideout for the host to access at any time.]”

The system seemed apologetic, offering this as compensation.

Lin Jiayao didn’t respond.

“[Please trust the system. The host’s and the system’s interests are aligned.]”

Lin Jiayao’s silence seemed to make the system anxious. It clearly didn’t want their relationship to deteriorate.

“Copy it, and I’ll check it later.” Lin Jiayao replied mentally, then fell silent.

The system would back up a copy with the system memories, and she would back up another copy without them, a double guarantee.

As for choosing a zombie, that was easy. There were plenty of barely-alive zombies hanging from the building-trees in Kun City. She could just pick one with stable vital signs and implant her memories as a dream.

A C-rank would be best; they were more durable.

Lin Jiayao controlled the flying insects to search for a suitable zombie while continuing to rest and recover her mental power.

This login hadn’t been too mentally taxing. An hour of rest should be enough for a full recovery.

After spending a few minutes selecting a zombie, Lin Jiayao released the Building-Tree Guardian’s control over it and, using synergistic pheromones carried by a flying insect, directed it towards the villa.

Meanwhile, Lin Jiayao was browsing the two sets of memories the system had prepared in the Hideout.

One set included the system, the other didn’t. The set without the system was for implanting into the zombie’s dream.

These two sets of memories were presented as phantoms of Lin Jiayao within the Hideout. She could enter a space similar to the training ground simply by touching them, and could even fast-forward through the memories.

Since it was just storing memories, it didn’t take much processing power. After fast-forwarding and confirming both sets were accurate, only about ten minutes had passed.

Reliving her memories seemed to accelerate Lin Jiayao’s mental recovery.

Just as she finished reviewing the memories and closed the system interface, a system prompt box popped up.

“[Host… insufficient information. Unable to determine the cause.]”

“[If the host encounters this kind of mental interference again, the system can intercept and trace it back to its source.]”

The system’s message was simple: it couldn’t analyze the cause of the previous mental interference, but if it happened again, the system could intercept and identify the source.

This was meant to reassure Lin Jiayao, so she wouldn’t worry about logging into the Simulator next time.

“Then, if I upgrade my Spirit to max level, can I resist this interference?” Lin Jiayao asked mentally.

“[It can bypass this system, so it should be unrelated to the strength of one’s mental power.]”

Unrelated to mental power?

Then what was it related to?

After thinking for a while, Lin Jiayao decided to stop dwelling on this question; she could only speculate.

To truly understand the cause, she would have to wait for it to happen again, as the system suggested.

She just needed to be prepared.

Thinking this, Lin Jiayao activated Stealth Movement.

She leaned forward in the insect chair, dumping the sleeping Blue Serpent onto the floor.

Then, she released her sister’s hand, disentangled Huayibai’s legs from her waist, and climbed off the bed.

Her movements didn’t wake her sister or Huayibai, only startling the Blue Serpent.

The Blue Serpent, sitting on the floor, rubbed its eyes, watched as Lin Jiayao settled into the insect chair and prepared to leave, thought for a moment, then stood up and followed.

Having transformed into a human, its body was much larger than its snake form. It couldn’t curl up by Lin Jiayao’s legs anymore, so it simply held onto the back of the insect chair, being dragged along.

Lin Jiayao had placed the chosen zombie in another villa. She controlled it to lie on the bed, then extended several bone spurs from her right hand, severing its hands and legs.

It was just a zombie; Lin Jiayao showed no mercy.

While controlling the vascular network to reconnect to this zombie and provide it with nutrients, Lin Jiayao used Worm’s Eye on it.

A flood of memories was implanted into the C-rank zombie’s brain, causing its mind to collapse. It instantly lost all mobility, passively receiving the memories.

But it only had the memories; it couldn’t comprehend them.

It was like strapping a mindless zombie to a chair in a movie theater and forcing it to watch movies for three days and nights. It would still be mindless.

The zombie’s consciousness had been wiped out, its empty brain now storing Lin Jiayao’s backup memories, lying quietly on the sofa in the villa.

What are you doing?

The Blue Serpent rested its chin on the armrest of Lin Jiayao’s insect chair and looked up at her curiously.

To the Blue Serpent, it seemed like Lin Jiayao was pointlessly torturing a defenseless, mindless zombie. It wasn’t something its benefactor would normally do.

“Creating an external brain,” Lin Jiayao said calmly, “for storing memories.”

The Blue Serpent, directly connected to her mind, could tell whether she was lying.

Conversely, Lin Jiayao could also directly understand the Blue Serpent’s true intentions, knowing that its mind was filled with nothing but wings, sleeping, and laying eggs.

Lin Jiayao didn’t hide anything and spoke frankly.

These memories, not involving the system, weren’t particularly important, mostly just recordings of Lin Jiayao’s emotions and relationships.

Her feelings for her sister, for Huayibai, and for others.

Like a recorded confession.

After securing the memory backup, Lin Jiayao wrapped the villa in vines and left.

The Blue Serpent quickly lost interest in the villa and the sealed zombie—it couldn’t sprout wings from them, so they were useless.

Lin Jiayao’s mental power had also mostly recovered, and after a short rest, she could continue with the next simulation login.

She first went to the swimming pool and retrieved the bags of Blood Crystal Serum, stacking them in her warehouse until she had two thousand bags.

Then, Lin Jiayao opened the Hideout and looked towards the Research Lab, scrolling down to find what she needed.

[Spirit Lv.Max (Gold)]
[Blood Crystals required for upgrade: 2000]
[Research time: 48 hours]

Although it was a bit painful, Lin Jiayao still clicked Confirm Research.

It would be finished in two days. By then, she could probably directly confront those mentally focused end-stage blood crystals in the blood crystal worlds.

And until the Spirit research was complete, Lin Jiayao didn’t plan to enter any other Simulator worlds.

Besides regularly checking on Yun Naina, she would leave the matter of fighting end-stage blood crystals to her future self.

The slow mental recovery was one reason, but the main reason was that Lin Jiayao didn’t want to encounter that interference again while her abilities were still insufficient.

It was best to be fully prepared.

During these two days, Lin Jiayao would log into her other A-ranks every day to collect evolutionary abilities, and after collecting all the evolutions, she would log into her B-rank zombies and try to evolve them to A-rank.

Even after spending 2000 Blood Crystals, she still had 375 bags left in the pool, enough for a B-rank zombie to evolve to A-rank.

Plus the Blood Crystals continuously being transported by the Worm Ancestor, she believed that there should be quite a pile at the Myanmar transit point now. It was time to find an opportunity to bring them back.

After deciding to slow down, Lin Jiayao returned home and lay down on the bed again.

And the insect chair was given to the Blue Serpent, which, for some reason, loved to lounge on it.

Lin Jiayao, lying on the bed, planned to visit Yun Naina as usual and ask her if she had ever experienced this kind of memory distortion.

As a sane, end-stage blood crystal, Yun Naina might have a different perspective than Lin Jiayao, which might be helpful.

But this time, she had to bring some gifts. Going empty-handed seemed a bit rude.

Of course, she couldn’t give her nameplates or anything that might have symbolic meaning. Lin Jiayao preferred to give something fun.

Controlling the flying insects to browse the shopping malls in Kun City, she actually found something interesting.

Game consoles and computers were definitely out of the question. Kun City was perpetually foggy and humid, and those things would have long been damaged by moisture.

Even if she found a working game console, it would soon run out of battery or break down, and computers were even worse.

Lin Jiayao didn’t have the ability to send an entire diesel generator over there.

So, Lin Jiayao set her sights on toys that could kill time and were suitable for all ages.

Lego.

Yes, Lin Jiayao found an intact Lego store in Kun City.

This was definitely one of the best gifts.

Yun Naina was very interested in Lin Jiayao’s culture, and Lego just happened to have various building toys, both sci-fi and realistic, which would definitely be a novelty for Yun Naina.

Of course, Lin Jiayao was also worried that her gift was a bit too “masculine”, so she went to a nearby accessory store and picked out some earrings, silver bracelets, and other accessories.

And Lin Jiayao also asked the system in advance if these things had any special meaning in Yun Naina’s world.

After getting a negative answer, Lin Jiayao let the flying insects carry the large and small bags of things back with confidence.

The things she brought back just happened to fill Lin Jiayao’s 36-slot Safehouse.

A Lego UCS Millennium Falcon, a Star Wars Razor Crest spaceship, a Lamborghini sports car, and some small accessories.

These just happened to fill the thirty-six slots, which should be enough to keep her occupied for a long time.

Carrying these things, Lin Jiayao clicked on Login, found the No. 10 Simulator, and logged into the No. 23369 blood crystal world.

Because she ended the simulation on Yun Naina’s bed last time, after a brief mental tearing and reorganization, Lin Jiayao appeared in Yun Naina’s room again, sitting on the edge of the bed.

As soon as she regained her senses, Lin Jiayao felt a gaze behind her.

Turning around, she saw Yun Naina, wearing a thin, light red, cloud-patterned undergarment, leaning against the wall.

Her smooth, grayish-white hair cascaded down her shoulders, brushing against the curves of her breasts.

She was holding the quilt in front of her, as if she had been sleeping.

“Good evening.” Feeling the warmth of the candlelight, Lin Jiayao greeted her a little awkwardly.

It seemed that Yun Naina was about to sleep, but she was interrupted by her.

“Good evening.” Yun Naina’s hand tightened on the quilt, as if she was hesitating, and then she let go of her hand and let the quilt slide down her front.

“Don’t think too much, you’ve already seen it anyway, so I just put it down.” Yun Naina’s tone was indifferent, but her slightly flushed cheeks showed that she wasn’t as calm as she appeared.

“How long has it been?” To avoid the awkwardness, Lin Jiayao forcibly changed the subject.

“Two days.” Yun Naina raised her hand and brushed her long hair behind her, revealing her slender, round shoulders.

Only two days?

The time jump was really unstable. Lin Jiayao thought that a few years or months had passed.

“Is there something?” Yun Naina looked at Lin Jiayao’s eyes and asked.

Yun Naina didn’t know that the time flow between them was different and thought that Lin Jiayao must have something to say since she came back so soon.

Of course, she didn’t mind Lin Jiayao coming to see her, even if it was more frequent.

“There is something…” Lin Jiayao nodded, but soon, took out the Lego boxes from the Safehouse, “These are for you.”

“What is this?” Yun Naina leaned slightly towards Lin Jiayao, her gray eyes curiously looking at the square boxes on her bed.

The words and strange patterns on them were all things Yun Naina had never seen before, very novel.

“These are some models from my world, for entertainment, you can assemble them according to the instructions… If you don’t understand the instructions, I can teach you later.”

Lin Jiayao explained while opening the packaging.

Lin Jiayao kept looking down at the instructions in her hand, thinking about whether to teach her in the Worm’s Eye space, and didn’t notice that Yun Naina’s eyes were fixed on her the whole time.

“Thank you for the gift.” Yun Naina temporarily put aside those things she didn’t understand and asked, “What’s the matter you wanted to talk about?”

For Yun Naina, the gift was secondary, she hoped that she could help Lin Jiayao solve some problems.

Maybe this way, the black-haired girl in front of her would rely on her more and visit her more often?

Seeing Yun Naina get straight to the point, Lin Jiayao didn’t beat around the bush anymore, looked directly at Yun Naina, and said:

“Have you ever felt like you lost your memory?”

Hearing Lin Jiayao’s question, Yun Naina showed a puzzled expression: “Memory loss?”

Seeing the black-haired girl in front of her nod, Yun Naina carefully recalled for a few minutes, then shook her head: “No.”

Yun Naina looked at the girl’s calm face, which didn’t show any disappointment or other emotions, and asked back: “Did you lose your memory?”

“Yes.”

“When? Tell me in detail.”

“Okay.”